Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China.
International Business School, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 28;19(7):4019. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19074019.
Green innovation has significant implications for firms' financial, environmental, and social performance. However, its externalities may inhibit the proactive involvement of firms in such initiatives. In this study, we examined the roles of two types of managerial ties (i.e., business and political) in green innovation and further investigated the moderating effects of two types of contextual factors (i.e., environmental regulations and competitive intensity). By conducting an empirical study using survey data from 218 samples, we confirm that business ties positively affect green innovation while political ties have an inverted U-shaped effect. Moreover, the relationship between managerial ties and green innovation is contingent on specific context settings. Our results show that the environmental regulations enforced by the government strengthen both the effects of business and political ties, while the competitive intensity has no effect on the relationship between business ties and green innovation; however, it sharpens the curvilinear effect of political ties.
绿色创新对企业的财务、环境和社会绩效具有重要意义。然而，其外部性可能会抑制企业主动参与此类举措。在这项研究中，我们考察了两种类型的管理关系（即业务关系和政治关系）在绿色创新中的作用，并进一步研究了两种类型的情境因素（即环境法规和竞争强度）的调节作用。通过使用来自 218 个样本的调查数据进行实证研究，我们证实业务关系对绿色创新有积极影响，而政治关系则呈现出倒 U 型效应。此外，管理关系与绿色创新之间的关系取决于特定的情境设置。我们的研究结果表明，政府实施的环境法规加强了业务关系和政治关系的作用，而竞争强度对业务关系与绿色创新之间的关系没有影响；然而，它加剧了政治关系的曲线效应。
